This position serves as a member of the fire, fuels, and aviation programs staff. This position serves as a regional expert in incident business management functions pertaining to wildland fire and all hazard incidents. For additional information about the duties of this position, please contact Nathan Lancaster at nathan.lancaster@usda.gov.
In order to qualify, you must meet the eligibility and qualifications requirements as defined below by the closing date of the announcement. For more information on the qualifications for this position, visit the Office of Personnel Management's General Schedule Qualification Standards. Your application and resume must clearly show that you possess the experience requirements. Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community, student, social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. Note on Experience: Your resume must clearly document the following for each block of work experience; the beginning day, month and year the work assignment started and ended; the hours worked per week; position title, and series and grade if applicable; and description of duties performed. This information must be provided for each permanent, temporary or seasonal appointment/work assignment or volunteer work and should be clearly documented as a separate block of time. Incomplete, inaccurate or conflicting work history may not be credited for qualifications purposes. This can result in an applicant not being considered for the position. Specialized Experience Requirement Applicants must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the GS-11 grade level in the Federal service. Specialized experience is defined as three or more of the following: Providing advice and counsel to higher-level fire management on incident business management administrative issues to include appropriation use, personnel/payroll, cost management, fire acquisition, and fire claims; and/or Evaluating the effectiveness of incident business related trainings and making recommendations to improve course materials and delivery; and/or Preparing program-related correspondence, reports, and other written materials regarding incident business and fire programs, policies, and operations; and/or Coordinating with federal, state, local government, and private industry to manage wildland fire related agreements and ensure they are current, properly utilized, appropriate, and necessary; and/or Monitoring agreements and ensuring incident payments and billings are completed and consistent with agreements. TIME IN GRADE REQUIREMENT: If you are a current federal employee in the General Schedule (GS) pay plan and applying for a promotion opportunity, you must meet time-in-grade (TIG) requirements of 52 weeks of service at the next lower grade level in the normal line of progression for the position being filled. This requirement must be met by the closing date of this announcement. To receive consideration for this position, you must meet all qualification requirements by the closing date of the announcement.
Serve as the agency Regional Incident Business Management Specialist, performing supervisory duties 20% or less of the time.
Provide resolutions to incident related business management problems and issues during ongoing incidents.
Participate in the development of guidance, processes, and procedures with officials and staff from FS units, states and local governments, as well as other federal agencies.
Provide training and guidance to agency personnel including Forest Supervisors, Fire Management Officers, ECC Managers, and cooperators.
Identify issues, gather and analyze information, and develop advice and guidance to resolve substantive problems affecting the effectiveness and efficiency of incident business operations.
Direct and conduct review of the effectiveness of financial management and other business management practices for the fire program.
Coordinate resolutions of incident business program issues with the Regional Incident Business Coordinator and forest fire management staff.
Analyze results of incident business operations and prepares reports with recommended actions for regional consideration.
Serve as the primary advisor and technical resource to officials on cooperative fire agreements.